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The Southern California
Robins at Law
Robins at 9:50
Vol. VIII
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, February 20, 1917
No. 70
HMMliK LAW WINS DEBATE
Of SMIMK
One Mile, Eight Man, Race Between Pomona, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Occidental, and U. S. C. Is Feature of A. A. U. Meet on Bovard Field.
Pomona Huns Away with the Open Hundred, Gets Second in the Two-Mile Open Relay—Pomona Runners Prove Too Speedy for S. C.
The A. A. U. athletic carnival held on Bovard field Saturday afternoon, was marked by a freak relay race which will go down in history as one of the most unusual affairs ever “pulled off" on an athletic field.
The race was a one-mile open relay, in which U. S. C., Pomona, Occidental and the L. A. A. C. were represented by eight men apiece. Perhaps it would be better to say that each team was supposed to have eight men in the race, for as it turned out, three of the Occidental men did not run at all, several Pomona men covered two or three times as much ground as they should have covered, and U. S. C. was in an equally serious plight. It was decided to run the race over again and this time U. S. C. barely nosed out Pomona at the tape. But the difficulties were not yet over, for the chagre was made that an Occidental man had been fouled. The outcome of the race is still up in the air, with slight prospect of its being settled very soon.
The first big event 011 the afternoon’s program was the 100-yard (lash for high schools, in which Charlie Paddock of Pasadena distinguished himself by beating the field in the time of 10 3-5s, which was remarkably fast, considering the condition of the track.
i ,fJomona ran away with the open 100-yard dash, Chenney and Strehle taking tirst and second places.
I I he two-mile open relay was won by Pasadena, Pomona coming in second and Hollywood third.
'he Pomona runners proved too *p®edy foi I . S. C. in both the mite *od twi mile college relays. "Doc”
. °ok ran a great lap in the mile relay.
Ho Wilson, manual training in-
i Mructor it ]■ illmore high school, gave 1 an exhibition of “A No. 1” pole valut-niK. clearing the bar with ease at 12
■t. 3 in.
I .''V' ,l'e CUP winners of the meet I ' Won by Pasadena high;
I 1 i'lSS 7" Won by Redlands high;
; j;SS ” on by Pomona college.
I r. '! 1 ; 1 s<hke proved an extremely ; capable director-general of the meet.
THURSDAY WILL BE HOLIDAY AT U. S. C.
Banta and Ames Win Unanimous Decision Over Visiting Debating Team
Debating the question of the “Literacy Test,” the University of Southern California defeated the University of New Mexico in the U. S. C. chapel, Thursday evening, Feb. 15, the decision being unanimous. The local team, Neal Ames and George
H. Banta of the Law School, upheld the negative side of the question against C. D. Brorein and P. B. Timmons, the visiting debaters. The debate was well attended.
A large number of the members of the junior class returned from the picnic in time to hear the finish.
Prof. Tully Knoles of the History department acted as the presiding officers of the evening. The judges were Dr. George V. Fallis, president of the Nazarene university; Judge Robert W. McDonald, of Pasadena, and Prof.
H. S. Upjohn, assistant county superintendent of schools.
Originally, the debate decision was
2 to 1 in favor of U. S. C. The decision later was changed, owing to the fact that one of the judges voted for New Mexico, thinking he was voting for U. S. C.
TROJAN BASKETBALL
Game Ends Prematurely, Due to Injuries Inflicted Upon Opponents—Score 16—38
PACKED CHAPEL HEARS ROBINS
Former Factory-hand, Gold Miner and Political^Leader Makes Eloquent Appeal For Social Service.
Gives Touching and Funny Reminiscences of His Own Career; Will Speak Four Times Today.
for I*eb. 22, will be a holiday
I'lyJ1" colleges of the University.
1 be lnld as usual, how-"" I nday and Saturday.
"Vengeance,” cried the varsity I basketball team in a chorus as they motored out to State Normal last P'ri-day afternoon with murder in their hearts due to their defeat a few days before by the Alhambra team. And vengeance was theirs. They defeated the Normal team by a score of 16 to 38, the game being stopped eight minutes before it should have been because of the many unintentional injuries inflicted upon the Normal players by tlu* varsity.
If the last eight minutes of the game had been played the Trojan score would have undoubtedly ran up to fifty points.
Every man on the team played like a fiend. Ben Oertly, as forward, could not be checked. Whenever the guards got the ball dow'ii to Ben he kept it for a while, usually for the purpose of putting the ball through the iron ring.
Baker held down the forward position in the stellar style and added materially to the score.
McCormack, Sigler, and McMillan took turns at the center position. All I c;f them played in a way that would win an “all southern” berth.
Haight and Henderson were in the I guard position. It was due to their efforts that but one field goal was shot by Normal in the first half.
Henderson was 011 the ball every second and shot fouls with old time regularity.
This is the man who held spellbound for an hour yesterday morning eight hundred students at the College of Liberal Arts. He talks at Law College today at 11:30.
JUNIOR CLASS PLANS L
Unusual and Large Variety of Stunts and Features to be Staged by ’18
Again plans are in full sway for a junior picnic, which the class of ’18 plans to make the “biggest and best show 011 earth.”
The affair will be managed by George Homrighausen, assisted by Miss Dorothy Sylvius, Mary Bowen, Helen Brush, Benjamin Weiss, Earl Prior and J. G. McCrory.
Following out the idea originated by this class, the circus is to be a greater university enterprise and every junior class of the nine colleges is to take an active part in making the circus a big success.
The manager, George Homrighausen says, “Do whatever you are asked to (Jo and if a committee chairman asks you to be a human skeleton or a pet balloon, grin and bear it.” The circus is to be staged Thursday night. April 3, under an enerinous tent stretched over the west end of Bovard field.
According to arrangements, there are to be three rings where acrobatic stunts, wild animal performance* and many other innumerable affairs, which make up a real circus, will be held.
With the university band playing college airs and the chapel, annex, and main hall packed with expectant listeners the three-day Raymond Robins’ campaign was enthusiastically ushered at the special chapel assembly yesterday morning.
From the moment that the speaker raised his hand to silence the burst of applause which welcomed him to U. S. C. until his last forceful appeal to students to give themselves to social service, the attention of everyone in the room was unreservedly his.
“It’s not the things on the outside that count,” he declared, in a terse, emphatic way. “It’s the things on the inside. Too often we let people’s externals determine our judgment of them. ^ After all, it is not the color of a man’s eyes or the manner in which he parts his hair, or the quality of his clothes that counts. It’s something more. It is that something which is away down inside.”
Mr. Robins illustrated his point by reminiscences of his life as a gold miner in Alaska. He told in vivid word-pictures of the hazardous perils which tested the nerves and stamina of the men of the north, and he contrasted the Alaskan life with that of a modern American youth.
At considerable length the orator dwelt upon the changing social order and the need for altruistic co-operation among men in all stages of life.
“The next thirty years will be the most momentous in the history of the world,” declared the speaker. “Upon the youth of today rests the burden of tomorrow. Yours is the challenge of the changing social order.”
Abraham Lincoln was referred to again and again by the speaker, and lie gave a number of amusing and touching stories of his own boyhood, his boyish ambitions, discouragements and hardships.
“The Redemptive Principle in Education,” was the subject of the address delivered by Mr. Robins at a meeting of the faculty yesterday afternoon, and in the evening the lecturer spoke to a special assembly of men on the subject: “College Men 1 and Community Leadership.”
'I’liis morning at 9:50 Mr. Robins will address the women of the university; at 11:30 lie will deliver an address at the collage of law; at 4 00 Ik will address the Sociological society; and at 7:30 this evening he will again meet the men in the chapel.
Official Organ of Iht Associated Students, University of Southern California

The Southern California
Robins at Law
Robins at 9:50
Vol. VIII
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, February 20, 1917
No. 70
HMMliK LAW WINS DEBATE
Of SMIMK
One Mile, Eight Man, Race Between Pomona, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Occidental, and U. S. C. Is Feature of A. A. U. Meet on Bovard Field.
Pomona Huns Away with the Open Hundred, Gets Second in the Two-Mile Open Relay—Pomona Runners Prove Too Speedy for S. C.
The A. A. U. athletic carnival held on Bovard field Saturday afternoon, was marked by a freak relay race which will go down in history as one of the most unusual affairs ever “pulled off" on an athletic field.
The race was a one-mile open relay, in which U. S. C., Pomona, Occidental and the L. A. A. C. were represented by eight men apiece. Perhaps it would be better to say that each team was supposed to have eight men in the race, for as it turned out, three of the Occidental men did not run at all, several Pomona men covered two or three times as much ground as they should have covered, and U. S. C. was in an equally serious plight. It was decided to run the race over again and this time U. S. C. barely nosed out Pomona at the tape. But the difficulties were not yet over, for the chagre was made that an Occidental man had been fouled. The outcome of the race is still up in the air, with slight prospect of its being settled very soon.
The first big event 011 the afternoon’s program was the 100-yard (lash for high schools, in which Charlie Paddock of Pasadena distinguished himself by beating the field in the time of 10 3-5s, which was remarkably fast, considering the condition of the track.
i ,fJomona ran away with the open 100-yard dash, Chenney and Strehle taking tirst and second places.
I I he two-mile open relay was won by Pasadena, Pomona coming in second and Hollywood third.
'he Pomona runners proved too *p®edy foi I . S. C. in both the mite *od twi mile college relays. "Doc”
. °ok ran a great lap in the mile relay.
Ho Wilson, manual training in-
i Mructor it ]■ illmore high school, gave 1 an exhibition of “A No. 1” pole valut-niK. clearing the bar with ease at 12
■t. 3 in.
I .''V' ,l'e CUP winners of the meet I ' Won by Pasadena high;
I 1 i'lSS 7" Won by Redlands high;
; j;SS ” on by Pomona college.
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